060 Reading the Bible with Your Heart and Mind
It's one thing to read the Bible with our eyes and our mind—and another thing to truly engage our heart. But if the Bible is God's primary way of communicating with us, it makes sense to learn to read it deeply. Here are some keys to reading God's word from Celebration of Discipline author Richard
The Resilient DVD
During a particularly challenging time in my life, I began reading Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount in depth. What I found there captured my soul and changed me deeply. The result was 'Resilient'. You've heard about the book and audiobook—now, the DVD. And the first session's FREE.
059 Seven Ways God Might Be Speaking To You
In Scripture we find God speaking through peals of thunder, pillars of cloud, flaming bushes, even donkeys. He used prophets, angels, the beauty of creation, the coming of Jesus. God is surely a communicating God. But in the 21st century, how might we expect him to speak to us personally about our everyday, modern, Western
058 How to Hear God’s Voice – Three Keys
Life's full of big questions. Should I marry? If so, who? Take that job? Buy that house? Is this the career for me? Which church is the right one? And which city should I settle in? If we believe there's a God who cares and wants to guide our big decisions, we need to know
Need Some Inspiration? Here’s 6 Stories to Brighten Your Day
Children living on a rubbish dump in Paraguay turn trash into music… A mute girl learns to speak… A violent, paraplegic and emotionally scarred lady learns that she’s deeply loved… An antique-lover receives a vintage sewing machine from heaven… If you need some encouragement today, these 6 stories are a great place to start.
We are More Than Our Greatest Success or Worst Failure
Frank Sinatra will forever be remembered for the song My Way, even though he hated it. The same thing happens to celebrities and politicians all the time as one song, controversy or policy failure becomes lodged in public memory. But there is more to them than that. And there is more to you than others
The Risk Worth Taking (by Christina Hubbard)
In this touching guest post, US writer Christina Hubbard shares her risky experiment of bringing estranged family members together for Christmas at her home. "What I feared was our history of back-handed hurtful comments," she writes. "As I made preparations, I questioned if opening my home and my heart to this family of strangers would
057 The Resilient Life [Keynote Talk]
It's easy to feel insignificant in a world that values power and popularity. It's easy to feel weak in a world with so much violence. In this keynote talk I share the stories of a KKK leader, a black preacher, a seventh-century farmhand, and one of my own humiliating moments (ouch!) to suggest that Jesus'
Get Your FREE 6-Session Resilient Study Guide
The famous words of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount have been quoted by presidents, chanted by activists, pondered by theologians, and shouted by rock stars. But if they’re to manifest a resilient life, they must be lived. This study guide to my new book Resilient has been designed to help you go deeper into Jesus’
Redeeming Generation X
Cynical, nihilist, commitment-phobic, dispassionate. Perhaps no age-group in history has had more negative labels attached to it than Generation X: that often ignored 'middle child' generation between the Baby Boomers and Millennials. As a Gen-Xer myself, I want to shout "We're better than you think!" But as I share in this BBC Pause for Thought